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11-letter words containing ve

  • singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
  • sixty-seven — a cardinal number, 60 plus 7.
  • skunk river — a river in central Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 264 miles (425 km) long.
  • slave coast — the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
  • slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
  • slave river — a river in NE Alberta and the Northwest Territories, in Canada: flowing from Lake Athabasca NW to Great Slave Lake. 258 miles (415 km) long.
  • slave state — any state, nation, etc., where slavery is legal or officially condoned.
  • slave trade — the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
  • slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
  • slaveringly — in a slavering manner
  • sleeve link — cuff link.
  • sleeve note — The sleeve notes are short pieces of writing on the covers of records, which tell you something about the music or the musicians.
  • sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
  • slide valve — a valve that slides without lifting to open or close an aperture, as the valves of the ports in the cylinders of certain steam engines.
  • slough over — to gloss over; minimize
  • smoky river — a river in W central Alberta, Canada, flowing N to the Peace River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
  • smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
  • snail fever — schistosomiasis.
  • snake river — a river flowing from NW Wyoming through S Idaho into the Columbia River in SE Washington: Shoshone Falls. 1038 miles (1670 km) long.
  • snowy river — a river in SE Australia, rising in SE New South Wales: waters diverted through a system of dams and tunnels across the watershed into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for hydroelectric power and to provide water for irrigation. Length: 426 km (265 miles)
  • solventless — able to pay all just debts.
  • south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
  • sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • spider vein — one of a radiating network of dilated capillaries on the skin.
  • spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
  • split-level — noting a house having a room or rooms that are somewhat above or below adjacent rooms, with the floor levels usually differing by approximately half a story.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
  • spree-river — a river in E Germany, flowing N through Berlin to the Havel River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • square wave — a graph, function, vibration, etc., that is periodic and equal to one constant on one half of the period and a different constant, which may be zero, on the other half.
  • stern-drive — inboard-outboard (def 1).
  • stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • stimulative — serving to stimulate.
  • stock level — the quantity or number of goods or raw materials kept on the premises of a shop or business
  • stone river — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. Compare Murfreesboro.
  • study leave — sabbatical
  • suasiveness — persuasiveness
  • subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
  • subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
  • subdivisive — having a quality that subdivides
  • subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
  • substantive — a noun.
  • subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
  • subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
  • sugar grove — sugarbush (def 2).
  • superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
  • superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
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